Thursday, April 26, 2012

Set Yourself Free

 Sometimes in life there is nothing more that we can do other than to let go. Seems easy enough, right? Think again! Think about people that we love, something we love, something that makes us feel good, something that we are good at, or something that we don't want to give up just to prove someone wrong. Sometimes in order to set ourselves free and allow us to fly we need to let go. Let go of the problems at school or work, problems with people, problems with friends or relationships, the people we love and how we want things to be. Whether it's because you simply are afraid to let go or it is because you want to prove someone wrong in the way of doing it.
 By holding on to those things you may very well be holding yourself back, keeping your wings soaked with everything that keeps you down: stress, pain, heartbreak, confusion, hate, guilt. All dripping off of you everyday, hurting you and causing you to be unable to fly.
 As Lee Iaccoca said "There is no substitute for acute knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men." Couldn't have been more right, better watch out for those men, tricky tricky creatures! ;D
 Know yourself. Know your body, if you don't know your body you'll never know when your body is trying to tell you that it has had enough. If you don't know your body you will push and push and push until you are completely burnt out, you have no more and there is no hope of ever finding yourself again or being able to bounce back to you.
 Other times when you DO know yourself it's hard to accept that you are doing the right thing and you can't make up your mind. As Charles Spurgeon said "Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies with us."
 Our own worst enemy you ask? If yourself. You either don't know yourself so you don't know what needs to happen when it needs to happen or you know yourself and you are afraid to let it happen and you choke the life out of yourself.
 In the long run do yourself, and everyone who loves you, a favor. Learn to love and know yourself. Learn to listen to yourself, and set yourself free. If you don't you'll be choked of all life and your wings will never dry.

1 comment:

  1. Sometimes my soul and my body get so mixed up together I do not know which is which. I have to sit so quietly to sort it out... that is where knowing ourselves helps.

    The symbol I use for my life is the phoenix.

    Fly, Amanda, fly.

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